sitkin

Sitkin

Sitkin is yet another static blog engine written in Go.

I wrote this purely to satisfy my own needs for my own website.

Project layout for Sitkin

Here's an example:

├── sitkin
│   ├── config.json
│   ├── default.tmpl
│   └── posts.tmpl
├── posts
│   └── 2018-03-05.hello-world.md
├── gen
├── assets
│   ├── css
│   ├── images
│   └── js
├── favicon.ico
├── index.tmpl
└── about.md

config.json contains:

{
  "ignore": [],
  "nohash": ["favicon.ico"],
  "filesets": ["posts"]
}

• sitkin/config.json contains a few configuration options:
  • ignore is a list of file globs relative to the top level directory to ignore when generating the result site.
  • nohash is a list of file globs for asset files that should not be renamed with a hash of their contents.
  • filesets is a list of the file sets (see below).
• The sitkin directory contains templates that are used to render other files.
  • default.tmpl is the default template that renders every page.
  • posts.tmpl, in this example, is the template for the posts directory.
  • When rendering posts (in this example), the template set contains default.tmpl and posts.tmpl. When rendering other pages, the template set contains only default.tmpl.
• The posts directory is a file set of Markdown files. Sitkin knows that posts should be rendered (rather than just copied directly) because posts is listed as a fileset in config.json.
  • Each markdown file can include metadata, which is arbitrary JSON text accessible from the template, at the beginning of the file delimited by an HTML comment (<!-- and -->).
• The gen directory contains the generated files. (It should be gitignored.)
• Other directories, like assets in this example, are directly copied as-is.
• Templates like index.tmpl and markdown files are rendered to html files.